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title: Portrait medal of Mary I, legend MARIA I REG ANGL FRANC ET HIB FIDEI DEFENSATRIX
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mary-i-portrait-medal-da-trezzo-1555/
description: 'A cast lead portrait medal of Mary I: the queen in profile in a coif and jewelled dress, with a legend giving her royal titles.'
section: Collection
---

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# Portrait medal of Mary I, legend MARIA I REG ANGL FRANC ET HIB FIDEI DEFENSATRIX

A cast lead portrait medal of Mary I: the queen in profile in a coif and jewelled dress, with a legend giving her royal titles. It is a royal image and title in portable form; the legend ends with the title Defender of the Faith in its feminine form.

## Text on the object

Original (Latin) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
MARIA·I·REG·ANGL·FRANC·ET·HIB·FIDEI·DEFENSATRIX
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Mary I, queen of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith.
```

Read clockwise from the lower left; word-dots are as struck. The abbreviations ANGL(IE), FRANC(IE) and HIB(ERNIE) are expanded in the translation.

[← Silver testoon of Henry VIII, third coinage: crowned bust and HENRIC VIII, reverse crowned Tudor rose and POSVI DEVM ADIVTOREM MEVM](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/testoon-henry-viii-third-coinage-1544/) [Woodcut 'A table describing the burning of Bishop Ridley and Father Latimer at Oxford', in John Foxe, Actes and Monuments (1563) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/foxe-latimer-ridley-burning-1563/)

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